If you're thinking that Nolan's amount of popularity in any possible way depended on IMDb boards, you can't be more delusional.
Anyone with brains would know this.
People actually believe that few nutjobs at imdb with dozen sock accounts can actually affect imdbs rating(especially top250) or film's global popularity and acclaim?
Not to mention that among those nutjobs are also haters who have sock accounts to try and bring the ratings down. So in that way, it kinda balances it out.
I mean we are talking about what? Like total number of 20,000 troll votes?
These movies have over 1 million votes and we are to believe that 20k can somehow mess it up?
It's kinda like if you believe that a top comment on youtube speaks anything about the global status. But hey, it's top rated comment, so it must be the general opinion, right?
If we are to believe top rated comments on the internet, we would think that the whole world is filled with atheists. While in reality we know it's far from the truth.
Same logic applies here, great majority of votes were given by people who simply enjoyed the movie and rated it accordingly.
So what does a movie with over 1 million votes tell you when you apply it to the total number of people on the planet? Nothing.
But considering this is the most popular movie website, you are most likely to hear general opinion from the movie buffs around the globe, that's somewhat similar to the rating a movie has here on imdb.
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WallaceHasLanded
7 years ago
I'm curious how you arrived at the 20,000 number?
Look at Prestige for a good example. I love the film, and I feel it deserves any and all acclaim it gets. However, I don't see it as being particularly popular or main stream in the least bit. How is it that a film like the Prestige has the vote count that it does?
Another good example is Interstellar. Did you know that Interstellar had nearly 10,000 votes from U.S. users a full 5 days before its U.S. release? You don't see numbers like that for any other films, not even other fanboy trite like Star Wars. The resident Nolan blow hard Hippo was caught bring a part of this act of giving the film an auto 10 before even seeing it.
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Mistah-J
7 years ago
I came by that number exactly how you got your 10k votes before US release.
Those are the people that will give either 1 or 10 before actually seeing the movie, or troll the ratings.
It's also important to note that among those people are critics and amateur critics who get the DVD before the release. Among those people are also regular folks that somehow get the copies of that DVD.
And we are still around 20k mark, if you believe that more than 20k votes are sock accounts, that's crazy pal.
I remember Interstellar and it had around 5k votes before the premiere but nvm let's say it was 10k. This happens to any movie that has popular director or franchise.
Nolan is massive director and it's not rocket science why films like The Prestige also get attention, people are curious to see other Nolan films besides most popular ones. In this age of internet, it will only get more and more attention.
Also, there was a site that tracked down rating's change daily or monthly(maybe the site is still around) from when the movie was put on the imdb.
I remember checking out Batman Begins ratings before 2008, to see if it got attention before the massive hit that was The Dark Knight, and guess what? People actually loved the movie even back then when Nolan wasn't nearly as popular as after The Dark Knight.
You can check the votes from 2005 and how does that fit into your conspiracy theory around Nolan fans? He was already regarded as pretty good director before he got famous worldwide.
Many fellow directors praised him, even guys like Werner Herzog. And when that word gets out to the regular folks, they appreciate him even more, hence the good ratings on imdb.
edit: here you go I just found it, it's still up: https://top250.info/movie/?0372784
Same rating more or less like it is now.
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tectash
7 years ago
I'm curious how you arrived at the 20,000 number?
Look at Prestige for a good example. I love the film, and I feel it deserves any and all acclaim it gets. However, I don't see it as being particularly popular or main stream in the least bit. How is it that a film like the Prestige has the vote count that it does?
Another good example is Interstellar. Did you know that Interstellar had nearly 10,000 votes from U.S. users a full 5 days before its U.S. release? You don't see numbers like that for any other films, not even other fanboy trite like Star Wars. The resident Nolan blow hard Hippo was caught bring a part of this act of giving the film an auto 10 before even seeing it.
Remember something. There are two sides to every coin. Am I denying that the Hippo blind folks exist no. However there are those on the opposite end of the spectrum as well. I personally love TDK trilogy. I like all three. TDK is in my opinion the best. The Dark Knight Rises I feel is flawed and had the stigma of living up to the Dark Knight. It did not but I do not feel there is any shame in that. Batman Begins is not as good as the Dark Knight either but it is still a great film in it's own right. I have been called a blind Nolan fanboy simply because I enjoy the Dark Knight Rises. I am not saying anyone else has to agree or like any of the trilogy. Is it possible to like The Dark Knight Rises without being labeled a Nolanite like so many people do to you on here?
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